Now that Covid-19 vaccination efforts across the country are in full swing and President Joe Biden has asked state governors to prioritize teachers for vaccination, everybody is wondering: how are we going to distribute the vaccines? Including schools as vaccination sites will help ensure teachers get vaccinated.

While guidance from the White House does not make teacher vaccinations a prerequisite for reopening schools, vaccinating teachers is a positive step in reopening schools, getting people back to work, and kickstarting the economy. The next step should be including all public schools in a nationwide rollout effort. The Council of the Great City Schools, which includes 76 of the largest public-school systems, is already pushing to use school buildings as vaccination sites. Schools are not only already connected to teachers, students and families, they are also strategically located in urban and rural areas to provide easy access to the larger community.

And this is something that has been done before. Laurie Combe, president of the National Association of School Nurses, has spoken about how, during the H1N1 outbreak, school districts in Texas worked to vaccinate the general public on weekends.